Senior Release Train Engineer

04 Jul 2024

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Job Description:

This role is an experienced servant leader, who is responsible for optimizing the flow of epics/features and the value delivered by a complex/larger Agile Release Train (ART). Key responsibilities include coordinating and facilitating the ART ceremonies, managing dependencies across teams in the ART, and providing visibility into the health of epic/feature delivery and the overall program increment. This role ensures impediments to epic/feature delivery are resolved quickly, protects the teams from outside disruptions to delivery, and drives continuous improvement for the ART. They manage financials for the ART, assist with resource planning, and facilitate synch points between business and technology leaders. In addition, they promote and coach the Agile mindset and principles, enabling the ART to become high-performing as one cohesive team.

Required Skills

• Guide and coach leaders, teams, and Scrum Masters in the ART on Agile practices, and develop their understanding of Agile principles.

• Help define norms/agreements for the ART and enforce the agreements.

• Coordinate and facilitate ART ceremonies (for example, Backlog Refinement, Program Increment (PI) Planning, ART Sync or PO Sync, Scrum of Scrums), System Demos, and Retrospective.

• In collaboration with the Product Manager, ensure the program has a healthy backlog and review demand versus capacity.

• Facilitate dependency management/risk management /impediment removal for the ART.

• Promote/facilitate communication and collaboration within the ART to support value delivery and PI commitments.

• Responsible for providing status updates and reporting pertaining to ART plans/delivery/timelines/impediments to stakeholders and leadership.

• Ensure that execution is aligned with product strategy by working with Product Managers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders.

• Ensure Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered by the ART.

• Enable the ART to become high performing through collaboration and relentless focus on continuous improvement.

• Measure ART delivery, maturity, and performance and review the metrics with the ART to identify improvement opportunities.

• Capture data to help determine/track product funding and resource acquisition needs.

• Mentor more junior Release Train Engineers.

Desired Skills

• Governance & Stakeholder Management Decides the governance needed for an area. Defines the stakeholders for their area and maps them to strategic objectives and requirements.

• Risk Management - Identifies risks /dependencies that are not easily evident. Defines controls needed to resolve/mitigate.

• Financials & Resource Management - Ability to track project/value stream variances in order to ensure work aligns with project/value stream objectives .

• Planning, Execution & Process - Facilitates program/portfolio level planning ceremonies against backlog/ prioritized work. Manages risk/dependencies/impediments. Ability to answer program /portfolio level Agile/waterfall framework questions.

Supporting Competencies:

• Solution Delivery Process - Drives adoption and continually improves processes in the solution delivery process across teams.

• Business Products & Strategy - Working knowledge of products, services, business flows and understanding of financial context in which technology and operating principles are used within their business area. • Solution Design - Has contributed to the development of applications based on a design provided by others.

• Test Engineering - Proficient in designing, developing and executing test cases. Knowledge of Test Automation and tools.

• DevOps and Release Automation - Ability to perform or support continuous integration and deployment activities within their role. Understands the DevOps culture.

• Application & Data Architecture - Possesses an understanding of architecture and bank standards. Participates in or supports delivery of architecture designs and implementations.

• Analytical Thinking - Develops frameworks for solving a range of complex problems. Can foresee future problems and define resolutions/new opportunities.

• Promotes Collaboration - Collaborates with cross-business/technology. Focuses on how to improve the collaboration capabilities of others.

• Influences Decisions - Builds alliances with both internal and external stakeholders to gain support and buy-in on ideas. Partners effectively with business stakeholders and leverages industry knowledge.

• Achieves Sustainable Results - Sets KPI's for teams to follow. Makes decisions about technology that will increase or deliver business.

Shift:1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:40

Learn more about this role

  • ID: #43810650
  • State: Georgia Collegepark 31771 Collegepark USA
  • City: Collegepark
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-07-04
  • Deadline: 2022-09-01
  • Category: Et cetera